I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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